Definizione monolingua

snigger

snigger (third-person singular simple present sniggers, present participle sniggering, simple past and past participle sniggered)

1. (intransitive) To emit a snigger
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, page 22,

     ...presently the Moles spirits revived again, and he was even able to give some straight back-talk to a couple of moorhens who were sniggering to each other about his bedraggled appearance.

snigger (plural sniggers)

1. A partly suppressed or broken laugh
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, page 255,

     Here the unfeeling Toad broke into a snigger, and then pulled himself together and tried to look particularly solemn.

2. A sly or snide laugh

Definizione dizionario snigger

ghigno

ridacchiare

Altri significati:

(intransitive) To emit a snigger

A partly suppressed or broken laugh

laughter at an inappropriate time